Introduction / Jennifer M. Bean
Picturing Space. Introduction / Anupama Kapse
Location, "Location": On the Plausibility of Place Substitution / Mark B. Sandberg
Insurgent Place as Visual Space: Location Shots and Rival Geographies of 1857 Lucknow / Priya Jaikumar
Prints in Motion. Introduction / Jennifer M. Bean
An Afterlife for Junk Prints: Serials and other 'Classics' in late 1920s Tehran / Kaveh Askari
Robespierre Has Been Lost: D.W. Griffith's Movies and the Soviet Twenties / Yuri Tsivian
Translations and Transportation: Toward a Transnational History of the Intertitle / Laura Isabel Serna
Impertinent Appropriations Introduction / Anupama Kapse
From "Misemono" to Zigomar: A Discursive History of Early Japanese Cinema / Aaron Gerow
The Crisscrossed Stare: Chinese Protest and Propaganda in the Not-So-Silent Era / Yiman Wang
Around the World in 80 Minutes: Douglas Fairbanks and the Indian Stunt Film / Anupama Kapse
Cosmopolitan Sexualities and Female Stars. Introduction / Jennifer M. Bean
National Soul/Cosmopolitan Skin: Swedish Cinema at a Crossroads / Jan Olsson
Queer Crossings: Greta Garbo, National Identity, and Gender Deviance / Laura Horak
Cosmopolitan Women: Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl / Patrice Petro

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema between the two world wars. Drawing on film archives from around the world, this volume advances the premise that silent cinema freely crossed national borders and linguistic thresholds in ways that became far less possible after the emergence of sound. These essays address important questions about the uneven forces-geographic, economic, political, psychological, textual, and experiential.